Hidden moth

Chapter 107: The Form of the Land Class

Time quickly came to the end of the year. He Kao had spent an extremely fulfilling year, and his experiences were more exciting and rich than the previous 25 years combined.

Every year around this time, every department prepares for the year-end performance review and evaluation, which affects everyone's year-end bonus. While superiors are responsible for these reviews, department heads generally have a clear understanding of them.

Gao Xue'e told He Kao privately that the department's performance this year was good, and as for the year-end bonus, given He Kao's situation, he could probably get eight months' salary.

After tax deductions, He Kao's actual monthly salary is now close to 20,000 yuan, which is a small fortune for eight months. In addition to these small benefits, there is also a year-end team building.

When it comes to team building, if there is time, the department can actually go out for a meal every week and arrange a nearby trip every month. The year-end team building refers to an out-of-town trip arranged every year.

The division's custom is to travel abroad, often to countries with easy visa processing. While it's called the end of the year, it's usually at the beginning of the year. If we do plan a trip, it's usually between New Year's Day and the Spring Festival, lasting about five days.

Recently everyone is discussing where to go in January?
Gao Xue'e privately asked He Kao where he wanted to go for fun. He Kao replied, "I heard there was a department team-building trip to Sawa two years ago. You guys saw an elephant show and rode elephants, and then went to a shooting gallery. Do you remember that?"

Gao Xue'e frowned and thought for a moment. "Of course I remember riding the elephant. I even took a lot of photos! But I don't remember the shooting gallery. Maybe I didn't even go in."

He Kao ran to ask Xiaopang again, and Xiaopang remembered it very clearly because he had a lot of fun at that time.

He Kao wanted to go there again to scout the ground first, so that it would be convenient to "transport" the munitions in the future. After witnessing Xiaopang's heroic performance that night, he always felt that his firepower was not sufficient.

There is only a hunting crossbow and a pistol in the secret base now, and there are not many bullets, which is not enough to deal with large-scale situations.

Why go there? Technically, this is called path dependence. Xiaopang has proven that "moving" munitions from there is feasible, with a wide variety of guns and ammunition available.

He Kao was a law-abiding student who had no desire to cause trouble in the East Country, but he still had to be prepared. With his current rank as a second-level assassin, if he really came to blows, he'd be better off using a variety of weapons, both long and short.

This sense of crisis is probably difficult for others to understand.

Although Gao Xue'e did not fully understand He Kao's intention, she knew where he wanted to go, so she prepared two plans.

Plan one is to revisit the old place, still go to Sawa, and go to that place again, but considering that old employees such as Huang Xiaopang have already been there, only this one repeated attraction is arranged, and the other itineraries are replaced with new attractions.

The second option is to completely change to a new place, but the itinerary must include a large live-fire shooting range, which must be finalized with the cooperating travel agency.

What is a connection? This is it! It's the ability to utilize external resources in a rational way to achieve one's goals, without being seen by others! Presumably, the Qi-Valve-Reading sorcerer is particularly adept at this, right?

During the end of the year, He Kao was thinking about which martial arts school to practice concurrently. He first chose the "Ren Di Ban Xing Shu" of the Xin Pan School because some of its characteristics were similar to the stealth technique.

"Ren Di Ban Xing" is an idiom that comes from a famous ancient Dongguo poem describing a snowy scene: "Reliving the clouds to rise and fall, the wind tosses and scatters them. The objects are given images, the ground is formed. Sustainability is established by encounters, pollution is formed by stains."

The second-level knights of Xinpan Sect can practice this technique, which focuses on integrating one's own aura with the earth's spiritual energy, which is equivalent to integrating the body and spirit with the environment. It also has effects similar to "holding breath" and "stealth".

He Kao tried for several days, and although he could barely get the hang of it, he always felt a little awkward, just like a long-distance runner who suddenly switched to race walking. Although they are both track and field sports, he just couldn't adapt to it out of habit.

There are two reasons for this. First, He Kao's cultivation level is too low. He hasn't even mastered the stealth technique of his own sect to a high level, and suddenly he switched to the formation technique. As a result, he couldn't master either technique well.

Secondly, he is a sorcerer of the Hidden Moth Sect after all. Although the effect of the Land Formation Technique is similar to that of the Stealth Technique, the mental methods are different after all. If he adapts to one state, it will be difficult for him to switch to another state easily.

What should he do? He Kao, who had been worried for several days, suddenly slapped his head one night after sitting in meditation and felt that he was really stupid!
There was absolutely no need for him to practice Ren Di Ban Xing Jue right now; he only needed to understand the characteristics of each applicable technique. If someone saw through his stealth technique, he could just trick them into thinking he was practicing Ren Di Ban Xing Jue.

Anyway, he was the only one in the Yin Mo Sect now, and others didn't understand stealth techniques, or even heard of them, so they would naturally think of other techniques...

After figuring this out, He Kao felt very happy for a moment, but at the same time he thought to himself that he had not fully understood the various hints from Old Man Jiang!
The old man said that it is best to wait until the fourth level before practicing the combined skills. It seems that what he said was true. I just misunderstood it before.

Unknowingly, He Kao had been able to travel through space continuously for more than thirty times. According to the quantitative subdivision standards he set himself, this was equivalent to reaching the fourth level of an assassin.

This was also thanks to the Jade Wutong Seeds Jiang Daozhen had given him, those were the most effective twenty-three-year-old Wutong Seeds. He wasn't one to hide things; he would use good things when they were needed.

If it is given to Xiaopang, one pill a month is enough, and most of the spiritual effects will be wasted; if He Kao uses it to assist in his practice, he needs to master it himself, basically taking one pill every five days to a week, and it will be enough to fully transform and absorb the spiritual effects.

He Kao didn't give the Jade Wutong Seed to Xiaopang, so he let Xiaopang continue to take the Peiyuan Pill. With the Jade Wutong Seed, He Kao no longer needed to take the Peiyuan Pill, and he left the rest of the bottle to Gao Xue'e.

While practicing, he was also secretly keeping an eye on the suspicious people around him, and he actually found one, who turned out to be a colleague from the company.

This colleague is not from this department, but in a downstream department of the business chain of the business unit. His office is next to He Kao and his colleagues, and he happens to have a business relationship with He Kao.

He Kao's cloud service project team had been recruiting new members throughout the year and into the middle of the year, but that recruitment has now concluded. This kind of business growth has a transmission and lag effect, and in the second half of the year, it will be the turn of the neighboring department to recruit. That new member is a female colleague named Yang Lingxi, a year younger than He Kao and a recent graduate with a master's degree.

She seemed to have an unusual interest in He Kao. Less than half a month after coming to the company, everyone thought she was pursuing He Kao, and it seemed that she was indeed pursuing He Kao.

There is nothing strange about this kind of thing, and no one knows the relationship between him and Gao Xue'e.

He Kaogang had just acquired a large house in Guanliu Community and several million yuan worth of cash equivalents. The news gradually spread within the company, and no one knew who first leaked the news.

Adding to his age, height, and looks, he was now quite competitive in the dating market. Throughout the Qiyuan branch, there were dozens of girls interested in him, including some who already had boyfriends.

Some people still didn't understand the situation, so they sent someone to Gao Xue'e, asking her to help arrange a date for He Kao. Gao Xue'e smiled and agreed, but as for the matter...

But Yang Lingxi's actions were very direct. She always invited He Kao to dinner, concerts, art exhibitions, etc.

At first, she invited several people from this department at the same time in the name of expressing gratitude for work support and strengthening business contacts, but she included He Kao every time.

Even when the other department held team-building activities, they would invite a few people from this department through their supervisor, and every time they would arrange He Kao's seat next to Yang Lingxi... Later on, she simply asked He Kao out directly.

Even if He Kao doubted everything, he would not completely deny his own charm. It was normal for girls to want to pursue him, but he always felt that something was wrong.

As soon as this girl arrived at the company, she quickly locked onto her target and launched her offensive against him. But looking at it from another angle, could it be that she locked onto her target before joining the company, specifically because of him?
Although there are precedents of being rich, He Kao also has to think more about it.

He Kao had to admire Lao Qian. Although Lao Qian had other intentions when he joined the company, he quickly changed his mind after giving up his goal and was promoted to vice president. He also had the means to overthrow the president.
To be honest, Yang Lingxi is quite pretty. If Gao Xue'e can score 9.6 points without makeup, then she can at least score 8.9 points... Is it possible that someone is using a beauty trap behind the scenes to make her fall in love with her?

The honey trap may sound cliché, but it does work, and it's especially clever in this situation. This is because no matter who is sent to spy on He Kao, there's a chance He Kao will notice and become alert.

Even if He Kao couldn't detect it, the hidden moth related to He Kao might be able to discover it in the dark.

However, it was natural for a beautiful colleague to show affection for He Kao and want to establish an intimate relationship with him, and no one could even interfere.

What's there to doubt about when young men and women talk about diet?

If Yang Lingxi really became He Kao's girlfriend, or even hooked him up, then many investigations could be carried out unknowingly, and even create a situation of one-way transparent information.

But the people behind the scenes probably didn't realize that although the beauty trap was clever, it was not suitable to be used within the company. Apart from anything else, Gao Xue'e was watching!
Apart from the intuitive feeling that something was wrong, when did He Kao feel that there was something suspicious about this colleague?
Because Yang Lingxi was not only interested in him as a person, but also seemed to be more interested in his social relationships. When they chatted together, she always liked to ask about his past experiences, his relatives and friends, and how his relationships were.

But being interested in a person's personal situation is also a sign of interest in that person, which is understandable.

But one time, Yang Lingxi heard that a few days ago, a college classmate of He Kao came to Qiyuan to play with him, and she actually started to ask about that classmate's situation.

She asked quite detailed questions, and although the topic was cleverly concealed, it still made He Kao feel that something was not right.

He Kao had rejected Yang Lingxi's invitations to stay alone in various ways. If that didn't work out, Gao Xue'e would just ask him to work overtime. He would only go to crowded departmental gatherings, but he never stayed alone.

If He Kao only felt this way, he could be said to be suspicious. However, Qian Guran, the old silver coin, also privately reminded He Kao to be careful with Yang Lingxi... This was not just He Kao's illusion.

He Kao also asked Lao Qian if he could tell if Yang Lingxi had any magical skills. If so, which sect might she be a disciple of?

Qian Guran said that he didn't notice it. Either Yang Lingxi usually restrained her spirit very well and never used magic, or the more likely possibility was that she herself was not a sorcerer.

If it was the latter, the Shumen Zongfatang would have no way to intervene without evidence. Although Lao Qian suspected Yang Lingxi, he also had no solid evidence to prove that Yang Lingxi was really problematic.

In this situation, He Kao can only be more careful.

Not only Lao Qian, Gao Xue'e also reminded He Kao that she also felt that there was something wrong with that woman. In short, she did not really and purely want to pursue He Kao, and seemed to have other intentions.

As for evidence, Gao Xue'e didn't have any, it was just intuition.

He Kao secretly sighed, if it was really a honey trap, it was fortunate that it was aimed at him and not Huang Si. Although Xiaopang was very opposed to the various blind dates arranged by Chen's mother, he was actually completely immune to honey traps.

While He Kao was quietly on guard against his new colleague, he was also keeping an eye out for Wei Luo in Qiyuan.

When he found an opportunity to go out on a business trip that day, he suddenly received a call from Gao Xue'e, who told him that the person he had been waiting for had finally come to him.

He Kao was a little confused and didn't react for a moment. Gao Xue'e was definitely not talking about Jiang Daozhen's disciple Wei Luo, because she didn't know about it. So, He Kao wasn't waiting for anyone?
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